Brave Leo: Make Your Documentation Discoverable by AI
AI Can't Find Your Documentation on Brave Leo? Here's why it happens, the fix, and how to prevent it.
Brave Leo Context
Optimize your content for Brave's AI assistant that provides private, on-device AI responses.
Do not block Googlebot: Brave's crawler follows your Googlebot robots.txt rules
Focus on privacy-respecting content practices
Create content targeting security-conscious professionals
Why This Problem Matters
Users ask AI for help with your product but it can't find or cite your documentation. Get your docs into AI knowledge.
Why This Happens in Brave Leo
Documentation is only usable if Brave Leo can reach it through Brave Search's own independent index of over 30 billion pages. Docs behind a login, on a blocked subdomain, or rendered client-side are invisible however good they are.
Signs You Have This Problem in Brave Leo
Brave Leo answers questions about your product without citing your docs
Brave Leo gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report AI couldn't help them with your product
Technical questions get wrong or incomplete answers
Competitor documentation gets cited instead of yours
How to Fix This in Brave Leo
Follow these Brave Leo-specific solutions:
Don't block Googlebot in robots.txt (Brave's crawler follows your Googlebot rules), on your docs subdomain too
Serve docs as server-rendered HTML with one task per page
Make documentation publicly accessible without login
Publish docs as HTML pages, not just PDFs or apps
Implement proper heading hierarchy in docs
Link documentation prominently from your main site
Add TechArticle and HowTo schema to doc pages
Brave Leo Technical Details
Leo answers from Brave Search's own independent index. Brave's crawler does not advertise a separate user agent and follows the robots.txt rules you set for Googlebot, so blocking Googlebot also keeps you out of Brave.
Source: search.brave.com
Prevent This Problem in Brave Leo
Design documentation for both humans and AI
Test AI's ability to answer questions from your docs
Maintain clear documentation structure
Monitor documentation crawling in server logs
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Why is this happening in Brave Leo?
Documentation is only usable if Brave Leo can reach it through Brave Search's own independent index of over 30 billion pages. Docs behind a login, on a blocked subdomain, or rendered client-side are invisible however good they are.
What is the first fix to prioritize in Brave Leo?
Don't block Googlebot in robots.txt (Brave's crawler follows your Googlebot rules), on your docs subdomain too